Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Adolf Hitler came in, Heinrich Hollands got out. He gave up his job as foreman of an Aachen newspaper composing room, and retired on a small pension rather than serve the Nazis. U.S. Psychological Warfare officers found him, when they went looking for a German to help them print a four-page weekly, the Aachener Nachrichten. Soon he was doing some of the editing; Army officers found that it was easier to make an editor out of) a printer than to make non-Nazis out of the available German editors...
...that followed the Civil War did not change his life-like most Negroes he went right on working in the fields. But in 1925, when he was 100, James Wilson joined the Baptist ministry. He preached for 17 years. Four years ago, when he applied for an old age pension, he achieved considerable local fame-the Census Bureau announced that he was the oldest resident of the U.S. Last year he retired to his son's house at Vidalia, Ga., to read the Bible...
Toscanini was tired and a little apprehensive: he had never conducted on the West Coast before. But the cause was good, a benefit for the Los Angeles Philharmonic pension fund...
Interlude. In London, James Percy Knight, 67, retired as elevator man at the House of Commons, received extra pay but no pension because for 45 years he had ranked only as a temporary employe...
...Secretary of State because of ill health, landed on another Government payroll. As long as he was working for the Government, ex-Captain Hull of the 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (which saw service as a pacification force in Cuba) had declined to accept his over-age-65 pension. But after his resignation, Hull applied, now receives his $75 a month along with almost 130,000 other Spanish-American War veterans...